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Show Hereiliiury Taint-, One result of the labors of physiologists physiolo-gists has been the clearing of the menial vision, und the gradual comprehension of the great, pervasive and jiotenlial fact of "heredity " "The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children," said Moses more than 3.000 years ago. Probably Proba-bly he comprehended in but a very small measure Lho significance of his own , utterance. Not only do parents transmit to children their mental peculiarities, their moral tendencies, the features of the face,, the stoop of the shoulders and 1 tho trick of ihe gait, but they pass on to them their blood, their bruin, their gland", tin ir very soul and life. We do nol memi lo say that heredity is a tyrant from which there is no esapo, and that as is ihe parent in constitution und conduct, con-duct, so also must le lho children to Hie remotest generation. If that were one of the discoveries of physiology, small thanks would be due to the science from overburdened man 1 But it is not so. Tho parent himself, us is well known, can modify and make worse or better both his constitution and bin character. Similarly, tho child's constitution und character may be changed, until, by tho operation of the law of heredity itself, a not very remote descendant may Iw the antipodes of his early progenitors The discovery of an existing inherited mint of disease or of vice in a child not a cause (or regret, but for thankfulness. The disease taint itself is. of t:ouise, to Iw deplored, und so is the inherited vice; but its early ilis-covery ilis-covery is lo be bailed with gratitude as pointing out lines of physical und moral treatment which may lead lo ihe practical prac-tical enfeehli inent of tho taint or even i to its eradication. London Hospital. |